I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos

Author:Augusto Roa Bastos [Bastos, Augusto Roa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781564782472
Google: 71jHqX4TNmwC
Amazon: 1564782476
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1986-03-11T13:00:00+00:00

(Noted in the margin)

That idiot is right on one point. Our first knowledge of fire gives rise to a social prohibition. This is thus the real basis of the respect for flames. If the child brings his hand close to the fire, his father gives him a fillip on the fingers. The fire does this without any need to hit out. Its language of punishment is to say I burn. The problem to be solved is deliberate disobedience . . . (remainder of the folio burned).

Gaming should not be prohibited, Benitez said, Excellency. The passion for gambling is the only one that does not die in man’s heart, he repeated. The more it is fanned by the wind of necessity, the higher its flames blaze, the more it illuminates the soul of the man in need. Apart from the last phrase that you doubtless culled from somewhere as usual, isn’t all the rest of this little discourse on the pros born of the cons of gaming something you trumped up yourself^ Isn’t it true that you’re quite fond of peeking at the pips yourself? In the name of heaven, Excellency! Have my tongue cut off, my mouth sewn shut if I lie!

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